However obscure the birth of Lincoln, and untoward as were all the circumstances which environed him, he was doubtless born ambitious, that is, with a strong and unceasing desire to "better his condition."

A new way to better golf.

I learn with pleasure that my soul is dearer to you than my body and that your common sense is always leading you upward to better things.

Evan Welling Thomas II (C); 15Apr71; R504418.

Better the certainty that the desert sands, far below, would inevitably drift over them, forever burying them from the sight of his people; or better the chance that the Master, after all, really intended to deliver them back into Moslem hands at Bara Jannati Shahr?

better far In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine, Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star; Or in the streets and walks where proud men are, Better our dying bodies to obtrude, Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war, Protract a curst existence, with the brood That lap (their very nourishment!)

"That was never the way of the Highlands, 'Better a bone on the far-away hills than a fat sheep in the meadows,' says the Gael.

Rows of breakers opening their strong teeth for the ship might stretch between, but better the breakers than the slaver's deck and the man hunt in the slimy African lagoons.

Well, he'd better a-minded his own business.

"As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer; "better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath."

"As sair as ye like," was the minister's answer; "better a chap i' the chafts than die for want of breath."

"It was a large organization gotten up by the hereditary nobles of Russia to educate the people and better their circumstances by discriminate charity.

Jone said we'd better tattoo Corinne, for them marks would always be there, but I wouldn't agree to have the little creature's skin stuck with needles, not even after Jone said we might give her chloryform; so we agreed to stamp initials on her with Perkins's Indelible Dab.

To see the sweet, invincible American naïveté welling up in their intense satisfaction in being so sophisticated,oh, the harmless dears!"

But since you have heard a rumor that died out long years agowhich was deniedwhich even now I might better denysince, in fact you know the truthwhy should I deny the truth?"

Then, perchance, a sunny ray, From the heaven of fire, His lost tools may overpay, And better his desire.

We might well despair of ever possessing the land, where such 'sons of Anak' dwell, were it not that the ark of God is with us and His command has been given, 'Go up and possess it.'

Yet better the dinner of herbs, and love and peace withal, than the choicest fare or the most perfect service.

This threw her into despair; great tears welled her eyes.

God is as much better a Father than you are, as Jesus Christ is a better Son than you are.

I like better the excellent old-fashioned purely Italian food and Chianti and speed at Bonciani's in the Via de Panzani, close to the station.

It was late in the evening before Lavretsky could tear himself away from the contemplation of this life so quietly welling forthso tranquilly flowing past.

He further imagined the young man had come to town to better his fortune, and seek a place at Court; and he was not far wrong in the notion.

It was a part of his general purpose to better his French, but the actual effect of his sojourn in Alsatia was to put him out of humor with all French standards, especially with the classic French drama, and to excite in him a fervid enthusiasm for the things of the fatherland.

There was a small round hole just where the golden locks waved from the edge of the brow, and from it there slowly welled a single globule of black gore.